Inside Macintosh: AppleScript Scripting Additions Guide /

Appendix A - Scripting Additions at a Glance

Placeholders

Table A-2 explains the placeholders used in the syntax descriptions in
this appendix.

Table A-2: Placeholders used in syntax descriptions

Placeholder	Explanation
Boolean	An expression that evaluates to true or false.
buttonList	A list of strings, each of which represents a button in a dialog box. The maximum number of characters in each string is 255. You can specify up to three buttons.
className	A class identifier or an expression that evaluates to an object class identifier.
dataToWrite	Data of an appropriate type to be written to a specified file.
delimiters	String or constant specifying a delimiter, or a two-item list of strings or constants.
dialogString	A string of up to 255 characters.
folderOrApplication	One of these constants: apple menu, apple menu items, control panels, desktop, extensions, preferences, printmonitor, printmonitor documents, trash, startup items, system folder, temporary items, startup disk, frontmost application.
integer	An expression that evaluates to an integer.
listOfParameters	A list of parameters to be passed to the target's Run handler.
listOfTypes	A list of strings, each of which is a four-character file type code that identifies a particular type, such as "TEXT", "APPL", "PICT", or "PNTG".
nameString	A string of the form "Disk:Folder1:Folder2:...:Filename".
number	An expression that evaluates to an integer or real number.
referenceOrString	A reference of the form file nameString or alias nameString, or a string that consists of a valid script.
referenceToApplication	A reference of the form application "Disk:Folder1:Folder2:...:ApplicationName".
referenceToFile	A reference of the form file nameString or alias nameString.
referenceToFolder	A reference of the form file nameString, alias nameString, or folder nameString that specifies a folder or an alias to a folder.
scriptObjectVariable	A variable whose value is a script object.
scriptingComponent	A string that consists of the name of a scripting component.
string	An expression that evaluates to a string.